The role will see him move to Los Angeles for a year initially to host the show every night, seven times a week – meaning he’ll be separated from wife Michelle Keegan who is based in UK but also spends time in South Africa.

But despite concerns about when the couple – whose marriage has been dogged by rumours of trouble – will see each other, Mark has revealed how they will make it work.

Speaking to MailOnline about his new role, the 30-year-old told how proud his wife is of him.

“She probably feels the same way I do, like “Wow what an opportunity”. She’s touched by it.”

Discussing how they will continue to make their marriage work despite the distance between them, he said: “I think any husband and wife, if one’s working away then one will visit the other that’s a given.”

The couple, who have been married since 2015, have endured long spells apart over the last few months with Michelle filming BBC drama Our Girl in South Africa, while Mark has been working in LA as well as doing regular DJ gigs in Mallorca, Spain and Ibiza – so they are no strangers to a long distance relationship.

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He has however made it clear the move isn’t going to be forever and England will always be his home.

He told the website: “I going to say to you that I am going to move to LA and this is me emigrating and never coming home? I’m definitely not going to say that,’ he said. ‘England is my home and it always will be.

“But right now a path has owned up for me in LA and that’s a path I have to follow. You can’t be turning down opportunities like this, so right now my heart and soul is in LA, in America and in Extra.”